How much control do you have over the ads here at freethought? For example, I clicked on today’s sight twice, and each time a different ad for “Sign the petition to overturn Roe Vs Wade”, was featured below this post. Is this your intention?

The best tentacle sex stories out there are Torchwood fan fic. It is canon that Captain Jack Harkness will shag anything sentient and willing. (And Pteryxx, if the tentacled one is sentient it isn’t bestiality).

But I suppose fan fiction won’t be eligible. Too bad. I can think of at least three off the top of my head. One is straight-up PWP (porn without plot). One is a nice little bit of porn involving adaptation to a new environment by a “bog-standard tailor’s son” from the 21st century. One includes the sex near the end of an excellent piece of science fiction that I think i’ll go re-read right now.

Checked out the Oceana nonprofit that you support. Looks very good, but only one female on the entire board of directors, and not one female on the scientific advisory committee. Why? When Oceana improves in those categories, or provides believable excuses, let me know. The tentacles of the patriarchy are everywhere!

Tentacle stories often verge on bestiality, but one thing to keep in mind is that the problem with bestiality is that the animal does not (and can not) consent. In a tentacle story, usually the consent of the creature isn’t at question.

@Azkyroth:

The options are pretty broad for what you can send in. The whole point of an anthology is variety.

@Brownian:

Am I going to have to include a glossary? Actually, that might not be a bad idea… slip a little education in there…

@prognemesiss:

I like to believe that what I’m publishing (I’ve already published one anthology, plus two shorts on their own) isn’t very much like what’s already out there. If it were the same-old same-old there wouldn’t be much point, would there?

@mijan:

Fanfic can often be legitemized by carefully filing off the serial numbers. I wrote a Young Frankenstein fanfic that I think turned out quite well…of course the fact that Young Frankenstein was itself a form of fanfic probably didn’t hurt…

@otrame:

Yes, fan fiction isn’t eligible unless it’s for something in the public domain. I wouldn’t mind “A Princess of Mars” fanfic, for example.

@thewhollynone

I researched the charities closely. The thing is, there’s no such thing as a perfect charity. Some of them have absolutely horrible administrative expenses percentages (sometimes less than 50% of the money ends up actually doing the work). Some of them have very poor transparency. Some of them aren’t inclusive of gender, race, religion, or orientation. In the end I chose one that appeared, in the end, to have the most important qualities:

1. Doing good work
2. Doing it well
3. Doing it efficiently

If gender inclusivity is a greater priority to you, may I suggest picking up a copy of “Coming Together: In Flux” which benefits the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance? Or just go to the eroticanthology dot com website, and click the dropdown labeled “COMING TOGETHER’S CAUSES” and pick whichever charity you like better.

Just finished reading the story. I like how the creature’s tentacles help it understand the ship’s systems. It makes the choice of Ohree’s shape more meaningful.

The transformation of Ohree’s body from tentacular to human mirrors the transformation of his mind and outlook. He’s not invading and inflicting, he’s receiving and adapting. It’s a story about transcending the destiny imposed by society.

The tentacles there are a signifier of alien-ness. That’s the same role you find in a lot of tentacle sex stories; the creature with the tentacles is unknowably alien.

I’ve corresponded with Ghastly. He finds the idea interesting. If The Stars Are Right maybe we’ll see some Tentacle Monsters and the Women (Men, Demons, Aliens, Transient Beings) Who Love Them submitted for publication.

The movie, Galaxy Quest. The aliens in the movie were normally big tentacled things, but had some device to make them look human around their “heroes”. Their heroes were actually actors from a TV series (spoof of Star Trek) the aliens had observed transmitted from Earth, which they had interpreted as “historical records”.

One of the actors from the cancelled series fell in love with one of the aliens. There was a scene where they started kissing, and one of her tentacles came up over his shoulder. He looked, went back to kissing and they sank down to the floor.

Oh, Brownian, honey, didn’t you ever question why everyone wants Ghey Secks with you? We knew. We always knew. We just didn’t care. Openminded, most of us here. And in some cases, having read about tentacle sex, we were just a bit, well, curious.